On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, Donald Lee wrote:

: The NVRAM on the card is used by the Adaptec drivers under MacOS and windows,
: and can be examined from the MacOS side with a utility called "Power Domain
: Control", which can be downloaded from Adaptec's web site.  However,
: unless the NetBSD ahc driver *uses* the NVRAM - i.e. uses the values
: stored there in the same way as the Adaptec drivers, I would be
: cautious about making statements about the NVRAM's effects on
: operations of the card.

NetBSD does read the NVRAM [EEPROM] for per-target selected options.

Among other things, see src/sys/dev/ic/aic7xxx_seeprom.c.

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